babysitter (2014, charge, rain)

[selltheburgh]

Originally Posted by NYCTelevisionWriter

Babysitters at that age get at least $10/hour, and you'll need to pay her 4 hours minimum, so you're looking at at least $40/day.

Do you offer a 401k and insurance too?

Or do you 1099 them?

[DaisyDaisy]

Originally Posted by NYCTelevisionWriter

Babysitters at that age get at least $10/hour, and you'll need to pay her 4 hours minimum, so you're looking at at least $40/day.

This 4 hour minimum isn't a "thing" in Pittsburgh or NYC. Nor would it be expected for a daily after-school arrangement. There may be a minimum for certain agencies but not most situations.

OP, as others have said, ask parent and teen but you could assume paying a weekly rate and even pay it if you skip a day here and there.

[DaisyDaisy]

Originally Posted by NYCTelevisionWriter

It most certainly is a "thing" here in NYC.

I'm just surprised Pittsburgh babysitters haven't asserted themselves yet.

The OP asked about an after school arrangement. Your 4-hour minimum response isn't practical or realistic.

Most people in Pittsburgh (or majority in NYC) don't have kitchen help, a pied-a-terre downtown, doormen walking their dogs, summer homes in Hamptons and Nantucket or Bar Mitvahs at 5-star hotels. So your disdain that Pittsburgh teens aren't demanding 4 hour babysitting minimums for an after school arrangement is silly. I've got many friends in NYC of varying wealth and none would pay someone for 4 hours to pick up a kid from school.

I think you've made your point, just not the point you'd hoped.

[theta_sigma]

The only people I've encountered in Pittsburgh with an hourly minimum are child care centers. Neither I nor anyone I know has encountered a casual babysitter with such a policy.

[robrobrob]

I starts at 10/hour and goes up from there. If the babysitter is in college expect to pay more too. I would also round up. I would never pay the kid just 5 bucks.

[NYCTelevisionWriter]

Originally Posted by robrobrob

I starts at 10/hour and goes up from there. If the babysitter is in college expect to pay more too. I would also round up. I would never pay the kid just 5 bucks.

Agreed. 5 bucks is a candy bar. How would any of us over 40 have liked, as teenagers in the '80s, to get paid only a DOLLAR for something like this?

[theta_sigma]

Dude, at my last job at CMU for which I needed Masters degree, I topped out at $15/hour. Cost of living is lower here, candy bars are not $5, I am not going to pay a neighborhood 16-year-old still living at home the same wage I made as a full time research associate at CMU.

[robrobrob]

Our summer babysitter we paid 12/hour. The going rate is at least 10 and I know of a lot of people that pay 20/hour.

[erieguy]

Originally Posted by theta_sigma

Dude, at my last job at CMU for which I needed Masters degree, I topped out at $15/hour. Cost of living is lower here, candy bars are not $5, I am not going to pay a neighborhood 16-year-old still living at home the same wage I made as a full time research associate at CMU.

Basing what you will pay somebody off of what your wage is, isn't realistic. It's not there fault what your wage is.

I will agree that $10/hr is the starting point and there certainly isn't a 4hr minimum.

[WanderingHuman]

At least 10... If you want quality child care IMHO.